5 Reasons You Need to Repair Hail Damage Quickly

Car Hail Damage

For most car owners in Florida, fixing the damage caused by hail on their car is a lot more stressful than hail itself. Once their car has been damaged, they start to mentally prepare themselves for the lengthy visit of an auto body shop. 

But is that truly the case? 

Regardless of the dents, dings or other damages your car has sustained, Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) can fix your car in no time, which is why you need to prioritize hail damage repair. 

Don’t believe us? Here are 5 reasons you should.

Hail Damage Can Attract Cracks And Rust

The small dents and dings that are caused by hail can attract cracks and rust if you don’t give them the attention they deserve. If your car goes through its second hail storm, the damages will be even more devastating. 

Most of the damage your car sustains during a hail storm will be repaired by PDR. But before a certified technician starts to apply PDR on your car, they need to ensure that the original paint of your car has not been disturbed. 

PDR Is Cost-Effective

Compared to a traditional auto body shop repair, PDR can cost you less because it uses lesser materials, takes less time, and requires lesser labor. As a result, this saves you money and time because we know how long auto body shop repairs can take. Car owners who aren’t aware of the wonders of PDR often get worried when their vehicles get dented by hail damage. 

They start thinking of alternate transportation options for their daily commute because they expect the repairs to take days!

Paint Damage and Clean Coat

You may find it unbelievable, but leaving hail damage on your car for a long time can cause damage to your car’s paint which can spread all over your vehicle. Even small dings on your car can cause the paint to chip or crack. 

Because of this, not only will the paint start to come off but the dents will spread all over your car’s body. 

PDR Preserves Your Car’s Life

The last thing every car enthusiast wants on their car is a replaced body panel or fresh paint over the car’s factory paint. Not only is this repair expensive, but it can also take a lot of time. No one wants fresh paint or new body panels is because they reduce your car’s value. Even the best coat paints and layers won’t be identical to your car’s original body paint and, with the passage of time, these different shades will begin to fade. A potential buyer who is interested in your car will use these flaws to bargain on the price after your car is repaired.

A1A Is An Expert Of Hail Damage Repair!

Appearance 1st Automotive is the one-stop-shop for every damage related to hail. Because of our competitive pricing and our promise to deliver quality with every repair, our certified technicians can get rid of your problems with ease! To contact us, call us today on 904 664 9088, or click here to fill out a form and we’ll send you a quick quote!

Got Hail Damage? What You Should You Be Looking for on Your Car?

Hail damage can be easily identified, especially on the hood and roof, after a hail storm. If any body part of your car exhibits clusters of small to medium dents, it is likely because of hail that fell on that part.

The roof and hood of your car are most susceptible because they are facing up and take direct hits from falling hail. Sometime hailstorms are fierce and your car may experience hail damage on its sides due to heavy winds causing hail to hit your car diagonally.

Hail damage on cars can be very costly to owners and it can easily bring down the value of a fairly recent car model down by around $5,000 to $10,000. If we compare this drop in value with the typical cost of hail damage repairs, it is substantially more than getting your car fixed.

Sometimes owners want to wait out the hail season before getting their hail damage repaired. If this makes sense to you, it should not. If your car takes hail damage from more than one hailstorm, it may result in you not being able to get a Paintless Dent Repair (PDR), which is the best dent repair for hail damage.

What Is Paintless Dent Repair (PDR)?

PDR is the most advanced and innovative form of dent repair. Unlike traditional dent repair, it does not involve any fillers, sandpapers or repainting.

A certified PDR technician, like the ones at Appearance 1st Automotive (A1A),uses their skill and experience to repair your hail damage far more efficiently and much faster than traditional dent repair. If you are looking to repair hail damage in and around Florida, A1A PDR is your best option.

Here’s why.

Benefits of PDR for Hail Damage

There are incredibly great benefits of A1A PDR for hail damage when compared to traditional dent repair. These, they include:

  • Saving Money

Hail damage repair can be costly with traditional dent repair. Not so much with PDR because there are no extra costs of fillers or paint, which means you save money. You only pay for the expertise of your A1A PDR technician.

  • Saving Time

Most people who have gotten hail damage repaired know that it is a far lengthier process than typical dent repair. This is not the case with PDR. Our A1A PDR technicians are experts at repairing hail damage and can easily go through 5 cars a day.

Moreover, the lack of repainting and drying in the PDR process means that you do not have to wait multiple days to get your car back. You can get your hail damage fixed in a few hours on the same day you bring your car to Appearance 1st Automotive.

  • Saving Value

Since A1A PDR restores your car to its original state and does not tamper with the original paint coat, you get to save its resale value. While traditional dent repair makes your car lose value with repainting, A1A PDR repairs hail damage without any repainted parts.

  • Saving Paperwork

The inexpensive costs of PDR allows you to pay out of pocket and never file a car report with your insurer. No paperwork is involved and once your car is repaired, no insurer or expert will not be able to tell that there was any hail damage to begin with.

Why A1A Services?

You need only a highly skilled, experienced and certified expert to deliver the PDR process for your hail damaged car, and Appearance 1st Automotive is where you will find one. Paintless dent repair is solely reliant on the PDR technician and you want the best.

Our certified PDR technicians have years of experience with all sorts of rare, unique and common cars and can deliver you the best results in and around Florida.

Conclusion

Waiting for the hail season to end or letting hail damage reduce your car’s value is not the best practice. Identify any hail damage and quickly get it repaired from the best certified PDR technicians at Appearance 1st Automotive in Florida.

For more information on hail damage and Paintless Dent Repair, please visit our website today.

Progressive Insurance for Hail Damage

Hail damage got you worried about dent repairs on your car?

Worrying about dent repairs for hail damage on your car is a thing of the past. The modern world brings many new innovations and thanks to the latest and greatest ones in dent repair, your hail damage dents are now easier than ever to repair.

No more long periods of downtime, high costs and poor results, Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) has all the solutions to your dent repair problems, especially if it is from hail damage. Appearance 1st Automotive (A1A) brings you the best Paintless Dent Repair service in Florida and here’s how it benefits you.

Let’s discuss these benefits and one particular insurance benefit that comes with A1A PDR.

Benefits of Using PDR for Hail Damage

Everything you thought about traditional dent repair has changed with the modern innovation of PDR.

  • Time Benefits

You no longer need to wait for days to get your car back from the dent repair shop. The PDR process does not require using filler or repainting body parts, which significantly cuts down the dent repair time. Your car can be repaired on the same day if the damage isn’t extensive with PDR through Appearance 1st Automotive.

  • Money Benefits

With A1A PDR, you will not be spending nearly as much money as you would if you got a traditional dent repair. This is because there are no extra costs of fillers or paint and you only pay for the skill set of an experienced A1A PDR technician.

  • Restoring Benefits

When our certified PDR technician fixes your hail damage, the results are far superior to those of traditional dent repair because the technician is essentially restoring your car, rather than repairing it. The original paint coat of your car is intact and the results are indistinguishable from the original state of the car.

  • Resale Benefits

Since there is no tampering with the original paint coat, an A1A PDR will save you tons of money on the resale value of your car. Traditional dent repair drops the resale value of your car with each repainted part but PDR has no effect on its resale value, other than increasing it by fixing the hail damage.

A1A Accepts Progressive Insurance, If You Opt for It

Since PDR is so inexpensive, most people opt to pay out of pocket to save themselves the insurance paperwork and increased premiums. Their insurers can never tell the difference once our certified PDR technicians are done repairing the hail damage.

However, if you want to go through your insurer, Appearance 1st Automotive gives you that option as well. We accept Progressive Insurance for all your hail damage PDR repairs, if you choose to opt for insurance repairs.

Why Use A1A Services

Hail damage is very tricky and only experienced and certified PDR technicians should handle it, which is why if you are looking for Paintless Dent Repair in and around Florida, Appearance 1st Automotive is your best option.

Our skilled and certified technicians have vast amounts of experience with all kinds of cars. They perform PDR on exotic, rare, classic and common cars all the time. They give results that our customers stand by and keep coming back for.

If you want to learn more about hail damage, Paintless Dent Repair or Appearance 1st Automotive, please visit our website today. We even offer a free estimate online.

PDR Hail Damage Estimate Process

PDR on hail damaged car

We can all agree that Jacksonville, Florida, has unpredictable weather. We’ve all come to befriend rainstorms with the passage of time, but the one kind of weather we’re still trying to accept is a hailstorm. Being stuck in a hailstorm is one of the most helpless situations you can find yourself in. Not only can hail damage your home, but it can also leave devastating effects on your car. 

Quite normally, a car is one of the first few things we check after a hailstorm hits our area. Seeing several dimples on your car after a hailstorm is a heartbreaking experience – to say the least. You automatically think of getting your hood replaced, or your car door replaced because when damage is that catastrophic, you think of spending a lot.  

But is that the only way?

Paintless Dent Repair

Paintless dent repair (PDR) is the modern way of repairing a dent. When a certified technician at Appearance 1st Automotive uses PDR to repair the dents and dings on your vehicle, they massage the dents from the back until the shape of your car restores to its original shape. 

The Advantages of PDR

  • When your car is shipped from the factory, it comes with a protective coating on top of the paint that keeps the paint from scraping off. When you opt for an auto body shop repair, the technician drills two holes around the dent and then fills that space with body fillers. They then paint over the dent to make it look like your car has been repaired. But when you opt for PDR, this protective layer isn’t compromised.
  • PDR is a lot quicker! Most cars that come into the shop with small dents and dings leave on the same day, depending on the damage the car has sustained. This is also because the PDR process is a lot simpler than a traditional dent repair. 
  • Since PDR requires few materials to repair the dent, it is a lot cheaper, too. 

But one should also bear in mind that not every dent can be fixed with PDR. If a dent is too big, and if the metal of the car has a tear, there isn’t much that can be fixed by PDR. 

Estimating the Price of the Repair

To give an accurate price quote for every repair, a PDR technician follows a process that gives them a price for your repair.  This is usually a process, rather than simple guesswork. 

Cleaning the Vehicle

The vehicle is first cleaned so the dents can be visible. A dirty vehicle might hide dents on some occasions.

Lighting

The appropriate lighting is crucial for the repair process. A PDR technician usually uses a light strip of LEDs for this task. Fluorescent bulbs can also be used. 

Dent Size

PDR technicians usually use the US coin estimate to calculate the size of the dent. The sizes can be:

  • Dime
  • Nickel
  • Quarter
  • Half dollar

Please call us for a free estimate today at 904-664-9088.